All I Wanna Do

Sarah Kernochan wrote and directed this nostalgic coming-of-age comedy-drama with some autobiographical touches. In 1963, budgetary problems at the East Coast boarding school Miss Godard's School for Girls, prompt a merger with a boy's academy. The girls are stunned at the prospect of going co-ed ...more

Appealingly lightweight despite the handful of "women's issues" crammed into its script, this comedy anticipated the Dead Poets Society-for-girls concept of Mona Lisa Smile by several years -- but without the syrupy sentimentality and political bombast. Writer/director Sarah Kernochan wisely casts a wide range of appealing teens, from indie stalwart Heather Matarazzo to future Hollywood it-girl Kirsten Dunst (who would later star in Mona Lisa Smile). Despite the occasional anachronism or ...more